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Sarojini Naidu achievement timeline

Avantika Khajuria

Five top states in terms of percentage share in total number of women owned establishments

Varidhi Goyal

Five top states in terms of percentage share in total number of women owned establishments in the country are: i) Tamil Nadu (13.51%) ii) Kerala (11.35%), iii) Andhra Pradesh (10.56%), iv) West Bengal ( 10.33%) and v) Maharashtra (8.25 %).

Women in STEM

Sumanta Sinha

Biology is the field where women has more enrollment and interests to pursue career whereas engineering is the least interested and pursued course.

Number of women in lower house of parliament across the world

Vishisht Dwivedi

Rwanda has highest percentage of elected women representatives in the parliament. While out of the available data Yemen has lowest percentage of female MP’s.

Number of women in upper house of parliament across the world

Women literacy over the years

Lovely Tyagi

Despite going up by considerable percentage, female literacy is still very low as compared to males. The government has been running several education programs to promote girl child education like the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Abhiyan, amongst others.

Share of female workers worldwide in 2022, by industry.

Nikita Joshi

Gender Pay Gap across decades in India

Prajwal Jayraj

The graph depicts gender pay gaps in India across decades, there was a sharp decline since the 1980s and since then the decline has stagnated. Source Links: Business Today, Research Paper, Policy paper

Women excellence in various fields like sports, politics, journalism and entertainment field.

Akankhya Rout

Gender equity at Tokyo 2020 – number of athletes

Anupama VM

In terms of performance, women athletes won more medals than their male counterparts for some of the top performing nations. In both China and Japan, women athletes bagged more medals than their male counterparts. Source: PWC women in Sports

Women representation in Parliament

Arya S Biju

The highest proportion of women representatives elected to Lok Sabha so far was in the 2019, but it was nearly 15 per cent of total membership while the highest proportion of women representatives to Rajya Sabha stood at 12.7 per cent in 2014.

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